Kids bedroom's - where do I start?

[Liviam]

What fabulous ideas!!! I absolutley love the string to hang up their artwork (I had no idea what I was going to do with it all). I'm going to go with neutral walls and decorate. I love that idea. I didn't think of the kids out growing wall colour. I'm getting their names cut in wood to hand on their doors.

I'm going to go to spotlight/lincraft to buy some canvases and material. This never occured to me. Oh I'm so excited!!! What kind of canvases do I buy? Am I looking for ones like the blank canvas board that artists use?? DS is going to be cars/transport because he got a track mat for his birthday. DD is probably going to be a flower/butterfly theme.

It's the curtains that are going to be hard. Both of their rooms get all day sun. So I'm thinking a thick block out roller blind in a neutral colour and then the decorative curtain strips down each side of a bright colour. Thinking pink/purple/yellow for DD and red/blue for DS. Do you think that these strips of material need to sunblock out too? Would a roller blind be warm enough in winter? They have verticals at the moment and they are just terrible.

[Olive]

i get the canveses from reget shop, go low etc.. as they are cheaper!

[Liviam]

Kawasuki with the non functional curtain material so you mean the full length of the window or a strip down each side?

Olive that was exactly what I was thinking. I saw some when I was there today. Their rooms are really quite small so I am loving these ideas.

Is there anything I need to avoid with small rooms that will make them look smaller?? Can I do anything to give the illusion of a bigger room??

[kawazuki]

Kawasuki with the non functional curtain material so you mean the full length of the window or a strip down each side?



Is there anything I need to avoid with small rooms that will make them look smaller?? Can I do anything to give the illusion of a bigger room??

yep thats them. they just hang to teh side to look pretty lol
if teh windows are a standard size, you can get from lincraft a double blind roller system, its blockout and then you roll the block out up adn it leavs a uv mesh there. so keeps it cool they were only around 90-100 for a regular window i think.

to prevent a room looking small, keep it light so pastels for teh majority and try to group things so you dont haev bits everywhere to make it look cluttered.

a contrasting wall should be the oen furthest away from the door and also painting the cornice will give the illusion the walls go higher as well.

[Salad]

I think to make a room look bigger they say to use a mirror too dont they, I am sure I heard/read that somewhere

[Liviam]

Oh I'm so excited ladies I just had to pop on and share. Today I made my first purchases . I have the stuff for Will's room. I got him three canvases one car, plane and boat (found them on a throw out sale - extra woohoo) and a matching art board. I have found his room stickers on ebay. It is a funky race track. I'm not sure if the canvas prints and race track will match though. I have a small bookcase in Liv's room which I'm going to paint either red, blue or green depending on what suits.
Livvy I found her stickers on ebay (but I have to fight for them - aarrrgghh!!!). She is going to have a tree branch with flowers coming out from the corner and then butterflies flying from the tree around the wall. On the other wall she is going to have three canvases (same sale as will's) one a butterfly, one flower and one pattern. And I got her a butterfly cushion.
They are both having the same kind of thing for the windows. It's going to be a neutral colour sun block out roller blind with a rod of sheer and curtain material for decoration over the top. I can't get the dual ones as they will take up too much room sadly. I'm not sure what colour curtains I'm going to get yet. I'll decide that when I have all my bits and pieces together and then take them to the curtain shop.

My problem is what colour paint. The walls, doors and ceiling are a creamy colour and I don't want to change that as it is the same all though the house and it would look really odd. So what colour do you think I can paint the walls. The carpet is a light green. I was thinking about a light mint green and then putting purple curtains in Liv's room and a bright green in Will's. What do you think???

[*Infinity*]

You could get the kids to help you decorate a canvas for themselves - a room decoration & activity for the kids all in one LOL! Get some finger paints and let them go nuts or help DS to do a handprint or footprint. Kind of personalises it a bit.

[Liviam]

Great idea darl. Another idea I hadn't thought of was getting the kids to help with the canvas prints. I love doing craft stuff with the kids. Lucky you gave me another idea because DH hates the canvas prints I got for Will .